There are calmative drugs which don’t heap on a lot of side effects, but they aren’t “antipsychotics” either and so probably get ignored.
Exactly. We just asked my fil’s doctor to put him on Ativan to keep him calmer. He has vascular dementia and his short term memory is gone. When I leave after visiting he gets agitated because he wants to go with me. All he can think about is going home.
Those are his only real symptoms so anything stronger would just turn him into a slobbering vegetable.